Posted on 09/10/2017 10:14:03 PM PDT by Kartographer
At dawn, people began to gather, quietly planning for survival after Hurricane Irma.
They started with the grocery stores, scavenging what they needed for sustenance: water, crackers, fruit.
But by nightfall on Thursday, what had been a search for food took a more menacing turn, as groups of looters, some of them armed, swooped in and took whatever of value was left: electronics, appliances and vehicles.
“All the food is gone now,” Jacques Charbonnier, a 63-year-old resident of St. Martin, said in an interview on Sunday. “People are fighting in the streets for what is left.”
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Welcome to the Tribulation.
I don’t know. I mean this is the NYT and it’s been what, one day?
A little preview of what to expect when, one day, all the EBT debit cards flash “NSF”.
There is no by line.
They brought Jason Blair back.
Serious stuff
No preparation?! All the food is gone. Stupid. And not our problem.
I don’t think we’re there yet bro but it is definitely coming.
I’m glad some people are prepping a bit - just for natural disasters, riots, etc.
But I’d say most of America relies on the grocery stores being stocked. Which I think is a bad idea.
I have no idea what they do on these islands.
Evidently, the Caribbean doesn’t warehouse and food supplies — none whatsoever.
What are the odds the criminals have horded the food supplies... Or what are the odds NYT has trouble with reality...
Just more horse shiite from the NYT. These people are surrounded by an ocean teeming with edible seafood. This is either your garden variety looting or a big pile of NYT stupid.
Circa 1965 Hurricane Betsy in South Louisiana. The Southern end of Lafourche Parish was devastated. Their was no looting nor crime. People helped people.
In my home we had no electricity for about 10 days. We had a freezer full of meat. When it thawed we ate the hell out of steak and my parents had me load the rest of it up and give it to others as it would go bad if not cooked and eaten in a few days.
What you are seeing is a dependent class with no self standards. It is not pretty. This dependent class is a function of supposedly benevolent government policy which in fact is evil, but not evil by design but is evil. It is good intentions that are constructed without any insight into human nature. It is a failure!
Government policy by and large destroys self worth in relationship to social norms and decency. As such it has the power to destroy a civil society. If you doubt this analysis just look at Chicago.
Sounds like what most any city with an underclass ghetto will be like before long. Disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes just free the inner-feral in the inner cities.
Keep well stocked with ammo.
The Virgin Islands seem to have been hit the hardest by Irma of anywhere in the US. There are a lot of houses completely destroyed.
St Martin has 2 parts...half the island belongs to France the other is Dutch...
and there are a lot of descendants of former black slaves...
the main industry is tourism...5,6 or more ships every day...
they do make a few dinky souvenirs but most of it comes from China...they don’t make anything substantial and most of their goods comes from the mainland’s...
lots of poverty...
Fresh and stored dried food will go bad when exposed to surge water. Stored water can be tainted the same way. Canned food can be buried under rubble or washed away. I had all of this happen to me during Katrina, and I followed the best advice at the time for prepping. Learned that a lot of the advice on prepping is just nonsense written by someone who knows nothing about a disaster.
Yep, best plans might not work. Can’t get home or stay home defeats all your efforts anyway. Last year my wife and kids had to evacuate for a day because of fire on hillside (I was out of town). Found themselves briefly at a high school. Preparation was useless in that situation.
That’s why trump, shumer n Pelosi are moving to get rid of that pesky debt ceiling. Blank checks for everyone, well not the middle class.
So can you share how to store my dried food.. I am surrounded by a lake on threes sides less than a mile away. We have a lot of expensive dried food. Thanks.. they moved irmas temnant to the west, thankfully cuz it was headed right for Knoxville last week.
Notice that NYTimes could not help but put in a plug for the Cuban Communist government. I have real doubts about their knowledge of facts on the ground in Cuba:
“Cuba is very organized,” said Orlando Eorlsando, 53, as he replaced his front door with bloated plywood in Havana. “The priority of the government is to keep people safe and preserve life.”
While the Cuban response seemed to be a well-oiled machine, elsewhere in the Caribbean the government reaction has been halting, critics say.
“The Virgin Islands seem to have been hit the hardest by Irma of anywhere in the US. There are a lot of houses completely destroyed.”
There are a lot of thatched roof huts completely destroyed.
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